Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include beans, soybeans, peas, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, tamarind, alfalfa, and clover. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit – a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.
Legumes are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures called root nodules. For that reason, they play a key role in crop rotation.
We purchase our cover-crop legumes from only a few growers to ensure our customers receive the same varieties each year.
Some common legumes we offer:
- Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans)
- Peanuts
- Black beans
- Green peas
- Lima beans
- Kidney beans
- Black-eyed peas
- Navy beans
- Great Northern beans
- Pinto beans
- Soybeans
- Lentils
